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Climate Action Tracker
The Climate Action Tracker website provides an up-to-date assessment of commitments and actions proposed by individual countries for greenhouse gas emission reductions. It enables the public to track the emission commitments and actions and evaluate progress towards limiting global temperature increase.
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Climate Competitiveness Index
The Climate Competitiveness Index is an analysis of how countries create enduring economic value through low carbon technology, products and services. The 2010 Climate Competitiveness Index assesses climate accountability and performance to identify how 95 countries are progressing towards the low carbon economy.
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Guardian Environmental Data Store
Key facts and figures on carbon emissions, climate change spending, renewable energy use and other climate-related issues.
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Reporting REDD: A journalist's guide to the role of forests in combating global climate change
The guide provides an overview of the issues surrounding REDD - reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation - a proposed mechanism to slow the rate of climate change by paying developing countries to stop cutting down their forests.
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UNDP Community-based Adaptation
The United Nations Development Programme site looks at efforts to build climate resilience among some of the worlds poorest and most vulnerable communities.
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UNEP Climate Pledges
The site presents the current country pledges and the remaining gap for reaching global climate change mitigation goals. The site and graphics are continuously updated with new pledges, mitigation commitments and information from country parties.
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World Bank Climate
The site tracks World Bank-supported climate programs in areas such as adaptation, mitigation, water, carbon finance and clean energy.
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News: Women engineers promote low-carbon cooking across Mali
Solar and heat-retention cooking devices are cutting deforestation, emissions and women’s drudgery
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Blog: Photo exhibition in dark sheds light on energy poverty
Exhibition viewed with solar lights shows difficulties faced by 1.5 bln people who live without electricity
- Video: Early warning lags in Sri Lanka
